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If it were funny, you might think it was a parody of cheesy musicals.
But it's not - funny or a parody. It's just cheesy. Also boring. The touring company at the Academy of Music is general…
School shootings have nearly become an American commonplace - always awful but no longer remarkable.
Commentators labeled the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Con…
Though it has been laid low in recent years by litigation and bankruptcy, the Prince Music Theater, led by founder Marjorie Samoff, once held a handsome national reputation as a creator of a…
A newly released report shows coroner's officials amended Natalie Wood's death certificate based on unanswered questions about bruises on her upper body but were lacking several pieces of ev…
THEATER IS SUPPOSED to surprise. But there was no way I was prepared for what happened last Sunday afternoon when I arrived at the Players Club of Swarthmore for a matinee performance of pla…
NEW YORK - Maggie Grace had a scary moment during a recent matinee of Picnic, which is in previews and opens Sunday on Broadway.
"Smash" star Megan Hilty dropped by the Walnut Street Theatre to see "The Music Man" just before the new year. Hilty was in town with boyfriend Brian Gallagher, an actor in the touring produ…
AS I NEVER tire of reminding people, it's called "show business," not "show art." Which is why the current 12-day run of "Les Miserables" at the Academy of Musi…
Like a grand diva who can't get enough farewell tours, Les Misérables, the stage musical version, is again on a tour stop in Philadelphia against many odds.
Like a grand diva who can't get enough farewell tours, Les Misérables " the stage musical version " is again on a tour stop in Philadelphia against many odds. This time it arrives amid form…
She appeared on Broadway in New Faces of 1962.
Katie Holmes' return to Broadway will be much shorter than she would have liked.
This thrillingly staged musical adapation of Jekyll & Hyde pushes the limits of hypocrisy in social engineering.
Charles Durning, the two-time Oscar nominee who was dubbed the king of the character actors for his skill in playing everything from a Nazi colonel to the pope, died Monday at his home in Ne…
A version of this review appeared in Sunday's Arts + Entertainment section.
When last seen, British director Tom Hooper had just overseen a historical biography about a stammering monarch, s…
SURELY ONE of the all-time weirdest movie two-fers belongs to Anne Hathaway in 2012, in which she played Catwoman in "The Dark Knight Rises" and now Fantine in "Les Miserables…
When last seen, British director Tom Hooper had just overseen a historical biography about a stammering monarch, someone who felt ill-equipped to take the throne, a chap who couldn't get a s…
Bernard Havard knows all about major productions. After 30 years as president and producing artistic director of the Walnut Street Theatre, he has handled hundreds of them.
Travel back to 19th-century London Saturday and meet Ebenezer Scrooge at the Walnut Street Theatre production of A Christmas Carol.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's," `'Dirty Harry" and "A League of Their Own" will be preserved for their enduring significance in American culture by the Library of Congress, along with "A Christmas…
The all-male ballet troupe affectionately call themselves the Trocks and frolic like lords-a-leaping.
A few funny moments sparkle in Act II's decidedly unoriginal holiday show.
Stage adaptations of It's a Wonderful Life have been proliferating, and though no one version dominates, Joe Landry's at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope feels more viable than many: It ri…
